WEBVTT -- English
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Hey guys!
Today I'm very excited to present you the RetroStone 2 !
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The first RetroStone met a great success on Kickstarter last year.
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But some people were not very happy with the LCD and few other things.
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So I decided to go even further to bring you the most amazing system possible!
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I basically had to redesign the whole system but the result is awesome.
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Particularly this crisp and clear digital LCD!
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But we’ll come back to Retrostone2’s improvements later.
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First let’s have a small overview for those who don’t know yet RetroStone.
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RetroStone is a mini-computer that is perfect for emulation station.
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Through Retrorangepi you can play to pretty much any retrogame systems, such as Gameboy, GameboyAdvanced, NES,
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Super Nintendo, Genesis, Atari, mame and so on. And so on.
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There’s just so many systems supported! You can literally have tens of thousands of games on Retrostone!
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As you can see the interface is very intuitive, you have the different game systems,
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and inside each you have your game list. Let’s start one just to show you.
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So yeah basically you can play pretty much any retrogame up to PS1/N64.
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And the best part is that you can connect usb gamepads and play multiplayer with your friends.
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Whether it’s in a train or a plane for example, you can play on this small screen
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Or even better you can connect it to your HDMI TV and play from your couch with your friends!
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So Retrorangepi is really powerfull beside all the game systems which are supported,
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it's completely open source.
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So you can customize it.
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There're a lot of themes you can choose from.
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Let's change the theme so you can see.
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So yeah, that's another theme for example.
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You can really install from 100+ themes
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So you can find the one that matches the best your liking!
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You can also use it to manage your media files with Kodi.
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To watch movies or listen to music.
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You can even use RetroStone as a desktop computer!
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Just connect Ethernet, a mouse, a keyboard and a screen and you’r ready to go!
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You can surf the internet, write documents, write code and so on.
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So about the connectivity:
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On the front you have the control buttons there. You have a speaker there.
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A digital LCD.
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HDMI connector, microSD card.
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4 back buttons.
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The battery cavity.
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On the top you have a ethernet connector for easy internet connection.
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3 USB ports, for gamepads, keyboards, mouse, USB stick. Whatever you want.
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Soft-shutdown button.
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Micro USB for charging.
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A sound wheel and an audio jack.
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So now let’s have a closer look at the improvements of RetroStone2.
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First and most important is the new LCD.
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It's now a digital LCD compared to the composite signal of Retrostone1.
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So that means there no flickering at all. The picture is crisp and clear.
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And even better, we also found a manufacturer to make us 640x480 LCD instead of the 320x240 of RetroStone1.
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Which is 4 time more pixels!
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So even very small text can be read without any trouble. The picture is very clear.
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There's no flickering at all. The colors look great. The LCD is very much better.
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Speaking of the LCD, as you can see we also added a PC glass protector.
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In order to increase product durability.
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Now the second most important change is the CPU.
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Instead of H3 we use A20, which is much more energy efficient.
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That means a better battery life and no overheating.
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Also A20 has a proper battery management chip, enabling RetroStone to show on screen battery status
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and also have a soft-shutdown button, so you don’t have to worry about corrupting the system.
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Third improvement is the battery, which is now removable type, so you can replace the battery,
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and have an increased capacity of 4000mAh.
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So you can enjoy the system for a longer time, up to 6-7 hours depending on the game you play of course.
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Fourth improvement is the Dpad which had some problems with the diagonals.
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So we fixed this problem, now the diagonals are registering perfectly!
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And last, if we reach the stretched goals, on-board wifi and BT will be included!
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So that’s pretty much it! Thanks for watching, and if you like the project, please back it today to make it happen!